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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte
>>>> ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various
>>>> tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone for the comments. =A0I'm using cfdisk, since I find it'=
s
>>> the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you
>>> need to type commands; I hate that).
>>
>>
>> If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the
>> abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time.
>
>
> I've no idea whether my mainboard can boot from it. =A0It *seems* it has =
UEFI,
> but I'm not really sure.

I think it just depends on your bootloader. Gentoo's grub legacy can
boot from GPT and of course grub2 can too.